[time-nuts] Re: Where do people get the time?

[Hal Murray]

jhawk at alum.mit.edu said:
> Most notably for me is when I have my cellphone set to sync time to the
> network, every few months websites stop working and I look and it's bceuase
> the date has been reset back to 2011 or 2003 and so SSL certificate validity
> ranges are exceeded. And this with a major US telephone vendor whose
> corporate parents were RBOCs and a major handset manufacturer, flaw most
> recently seen in mid-2021. I suppose it's probably just a handful of cell
> sites that are misconfigured, but good luck getting it fixed. 

What does "sync time to the network" mean?  What software is doing the syncing 
and where is it getting the time?

Is the source of time something like NTP that user code could monitor or is it some undocumented back door tangled with the cell phone stuff?


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